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- 1 2 "Johan Frans Podolijn", Emil Hildebrand, Minnespenningar öfver enskilda svenska män och qvinnor, Stockholm : Kongl. Witterhets Historie och Antiqvitets Akademiens Förlag, 1860, OCLC 457966652, p. 207 (in Swedish)
- ↑ "Några Anmärkingnar om de Gamles Sjöfart, i anledning af några Carthaginensiska och Cyrenaiska Mynt, fundne år 1749, på en af de Azoriska Öarne", af Johan Podolyn, Det Götheborgska Wetenskaps och Witterhets Samhallets Handlinger Wetenskaps Afdelningen, Först Stycket, 1778. Facsimile of first page at Richard Hennig, Terrae Incognitae: Eine Zusammenstellung und kritische Bewertung der wichtigsten vorkolumbischen Entdeckungsreisen an Hand der darüber vorliegenden Originalberichte, 4 vols., repr. Leiden: Brill, 1944, OCLC 459874588, p. 140 (Book in German)
- ↑ John Murray, Selections from Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1872-76, New York: Arno, 1977, ISBN 0-405-10411-1, p. 2, note 3 slightly misspells the title of the report.
- ↑ Stig Rydén, The Banks Collection: An Episode in 18th-Century Anglo-Swedish Relations, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1963, OCLC 3268710, p. 52, note 1.
- 1 2 Wilhelm Berg, Anteckningar om Göteborgs äldre teatrar Volume 1 1690 - 1794, Göteborg Boktryckeri, 1896, OCLC 218053709, p. 123 (in Swedish)
- ↑ "Jeanette Ölander", Hildebrand, p. 206.